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Originally posted by CookieRevised
If you have a DVD (or cdrom) and HDD on the same channel, set the HDD as master and DVD (or cdrom) as slave. A dvd (or cdrom) works much slower than a HDD and if set as master may interfear with the HDD (don't ask why though, I have no clue, as it shouldn't happen; though I have experienced such behaviour in practice).
This solved the problem - thanks! Just proves how strange computers can be, the HDD's performance being influenced by a minor thing like this.
Both drives are now correctly detected in the BIOS and fucntion properly in Windows.
Looking for an expert on harddrives!
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